Accurate Printer Monitor5.5.7 Build 211

Accurate Printer Monitor is an approachable piece of kit that enables you to keep track of your company's printers to find out which one has the most activity, along with other important log details and statistics.

Customizable setup pack

The installation procedure does not take a long time to finish and it offers you the possibility to create a configuration template, write data to file and export it to a database, such as Microsoft Access, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle or others.What's more, you can pick the components to install, such as plugins for event notifications, ODBC database export, DDE Server, log packing, SQL Database Professional, event generator, and help files. Last but not least, it is possible to install Accurate Printer Monitor as a service application and to register the OPC server.

Simple interface and options

The main app window has a classical look with a well-structured layout, where you can add new configurations to the list by indicating printers, number of remote PCs to ping, automatic reconnect mode, along with monitoring settings: printer events, job events, log empty event data, aggregate events, and so on. By default, the TCP/IP server is enabled and the monitor settings are automatically sent to the remote clients, but these options can be disabled.It is possible to view the log and program protocol file, back up the configuration and restore it at a later time, get a summary on the statistics such as total, received and sent data packets in the current day and in the last 24 hours, and more.

Evaluation and conclusion

This software utility definitely bundles a rich set of options and customization preferences for monitoring printers in the network. It carries out user commands swiftly and consumes a low quantity of CPU and RAM. All in all, Accurate Printer Monitor can be tested by all users interested in monitoring printers.